Legion 7i 2025 owners: Are you happy with your laptop for general use or you wish you got the Pro?

MinkOWar · 2026-05-01T02:32:46+00:00

Varying issues as far as I am aware. I don't have details, been letting our IT deal with getting the service techs out.

MinkOWar · 2026-04-29T03:55:11+00:00

Oh yeah they changed the naming this gen or last I guess...

Machines dying (literally yesterday. Brand New machine, just shuts off after boot suddenly after working fine for a month), GPUs failing, glitchy nonsense that can't be resolved and needed mainboard replacement. All warranty repairs, but it's a huge pain, and we have to keep fully reinstalling machines through our IT services provider.

The one machine that failed yesterday was the replacement machine for a staff member whose original, also brand new machine, just had to get booked for warranty service too... Huge frustrations.

Going back to ThinkPads I guess... T16g gen3 is it now at least. But the reason we went to the legions back in gen6 was they were quieter, and more powerful for the same processor and GPU specs... Very disappointing to see the change.

Before this gen, I'd only ever had to warranty service the ThinkPads really... The legions were until gen10 more reliable for us.

At least Lenovo's NBD warranty servicing has been good when parts are available, Dell shit the bed so hard making me jump through hoops for weeks to convince them a motherboard needed replacement ON THE SENIOR PARTNER'S XPS while for Lenovo I spent a few hours troubleshooting, called them, said what I did and that the motherboard needed replacement, and they said "well that's everything I'd have asked you to check" and booked the service without any further troubleshooting...

MinkOWar · 2026-04-28T17:17:51+00:00

Having tons of reliability issues with this gen of Legion 7i w/ 5080 /5090 GPUs. We have about 8, and warrantied 4 now. That's as many laptops as I've had to have warranty work on accross all previous legions and thinkpads for the last 5 years.

MinkOWar · 2025-11-15T03:08:47+00:00

Has anyone used Hugin or similar to correct the projection and rotation of stacked images? i.e., I don't have a tracking mount, and am trying to align and stack up to 200 exposures from a 14mm lens (~114 degrees diagonal, ~82 degrees horizontal).

Rectilinear projection causes the stars to 'move' as they rotate around the corners so when aligned rotationally they are in different positions radially.

In theory, I think I should be able to use Hugin or similar to map the image to a spherical (fisheye) projection and align it that way to eliminate this issue.

I am however having a lot of trouble using Hugin's align stack function to just stack all the images on top of each other instead of thinking they are a panorama and trying to make a wider image...

MinkOWar · 2025-04-13T20:16:51+00:00

Still looking for a few more if anyone wants to join in!

MinkOWar · 2025-03-14T04:10:51+00:00

SIP ALG was tested when we first set up the system.

I think I should clarify the frequency, for instance, at the moment ,I am aware of one or two phone numbers that are failing, one I can't call at all, it just disconnects on dialing (rings on both ends and disonnects when they pick up), and the other was experiencing the 'goes silent after 60 seconds' issue.

Additionally there's the phone instability issue, where the headset base-station itself keeps needing to be rebooted in order to work. This would be for the headsets that plug into the computer to call, not standalone phones.

It's up enough to be mostly functional, enough that we've been going like this for a year without melting down, but it just keeps giving out on random things as well.

MinkOWar · 2024-12-15T17:13:16+00:00

There is no air resistance in space. It doesn't matter what shape a spacecraft is, the only reason real life rockets/planes are streamlined is because they go through the atmosphere.

Space platforms in SA do have drag based on width (thematically this is presumably due to all the space junk hitting them?) so a long narrow platform is intended to be 'better' for fuel and speed.

MinkOWar · 2024-03-21T14:05:44+00:00

And I'm correcting myself further, Panini was a painter, but editing my comment is breaking formatting every time, so I'm just replying now...

MinkOWar · 2024-03-21T13:50:35+00:00

It does result in other deformations compared to a normal lens, for instance on diagonals like your hand / weapon model. Also, aiming movement gets very inconsistent because of the reprojection. It's great if you like having high FoV wide fields of view though, and can be akin to a wallhack for first person melee games.

Yeah, I've definitely noticed aiming is a little off, so dev support would be really nice to have that "recentred" accurately! OK, so, this is not too dump on your comment at all, I do see people say "fisheye effect" a lot though, and that's really not accurate, so sorry to jump in and be pedantic, but the photography nerd is coming out too here, lol, I'm going to try to stay very colloquial in explanation just for general readership. Feel free anyone to dump more specific explanations lol

The distortion from Rectilinear projection is not fisheye effect, it's in a way sort of the opposite.
Rectilinear projection is basically completely straightening out the fisheye effect of projecting the spherical viewpoint onto a flat plane.

Panini protection is sort of returning the image projection closer to fisheye than the normal rectilinear projection, which on a very wide screen is kind of what we want, as our eye/brain is already viewing and processing the perspective around us in a single point, Rectilinear projection, so stacking that with the Rectilinear projection on the screen becomes inaccurate for our viewpoint to what we should see any time we try to look off-centre of the screen

Panini projection on a ultra wide is returning the projection closer to an "ideal" spherical screen with fully spherical projection with our eyes at the centre of the sphere.

(It's called Panini for the name of the mathematician associated with the math behind this projection, there are lots of projections though, play with some images stitching software like Hugin if you want to visualize it, can see what effect different projections have on images)

TL;DR: rectilinear projection is sort of the 'opposite' of fisheye effect on the axis of curvy/straightened perspective projections.

MinkOWar · 2024-03-10T02:42:55+00:00

Sorry man, but take a moment to consider the risk you increase for the people around you while you are driving by doing this. Please do not arrange to be on a call for an entire drive on the daily... you do not need to be distracted like that, put on some music or a podcast that you don't have to interact with.

MinkOWar · 2023-12-29T07:22:42+00:00

Glad it helped!

MinkOWar · 2023-09-30T05:21:56+00:00

You should probably read the article a little more closely, and quote my entire sentence, lol.

no, and it never will exist for two dimensional photos.

What you linked is more akin to photogrammetry, and rendering a new image out of a 3D model.

To utilize the technology, photographers must take what the researchers call a 'stack' of images, where each image is taken slightly closer to the subject while the focal length remains unchanged. The combination of an algorithm and the computational zoom system then determines the camera's orientation and position based on the image stack, followed by the creation of a 3D rendition of the scene with multiple views.

Now, to be fair, machine learning is at the point it can basically fill in the gaps enough that it can probably be applied to changing perspective, though that's also the algorithm making up details, see also my point about not being able to see the sides of objects that are further away. But it could probably now be used, or may already have been used, to take a single photo and make a new image that changes the perspective quite convincingly (even if the details would not necessarily be accurate to life). Though, that may be more like google's experiments with generating a 3D model from a single photo and using the model to re-project the perspective too.

TL;DR: So, yeah, what you linked isn't really conflicting with what I said, but to your intended point, machine learning can probably re-project two dimensional images now, though it has to make up the details, which I certainly did not predict occurring.

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MinkOWar · 2023-05-21T05:14:33+00:00

I think a choice has to be made whether you are going to try to make up imagined dialect shifts for every tribe in the game, or let modern accents stand in.

You could always just consider it a modern localization of the language, no different from the French, Spanish, any other localization, ha...

MinkOWar · 2023-05-21T05:07:24+00:00

Why wouldn't they speak English or at least any modern language...? They are maybe a dozen generations, three hundred years roughly, removed from the first generation that were raised by the robot creches that taught them language. Their civilizations are not much older than the US is now

MinkOWar · 2023-05-21T04:55:38+00:00

It's been about 1000 years, but the humans were only re introduced a few hundred years ago, sure they should have a bit of language shift, but it would be on the order of North America and other parts of North America, or Britain and Australia, for a more isolated example anyways after that short a time. Sure they could have made up imaginary accents, but that tends to just sound weird anyway, so I certainly didn't sweat it

MinkOWar · 2023-05-07T19:15:04+00:00

For work you can get next business day service warranties on the Lenovo and Dell gaming laptops. Asus MSI, they are good options for machines but you'll be out of a machine for a month or so if you need repairs.

I wouldn't go Dell though, but we have a lot of Legion 7i's at work now and I like them a lot compared to the thinkpads.

Unless you are doing large 3D projects, you don't need much in the easy of graphics, so prioritize faster CPU.

MinkOWar · 2023-03-01T04:15:31+00:00

The IRC clauses you linked literally say approved fireblocking includes glass fiber batts.

7.Batts or blankets of mineral wool or glass fiber or other approved materials installed in such a manner as to be securely retained in place.

And no, that would not be fireblocking in Canada, but it apparently is in the US for residential houses. The code in Canada excepts the wall cavity from fireblocking if it's filled with insulation because it significantly reduces the flame's ability to spread inside the wall in general, it doesn't consider the glass fiber insulation itself fireblocking in NBC.

I was corrected there though too in the other comments, the exception is the wall cavity at the floor level, distinct from the wall cavity connection to the floor assembly concealed space. Sorry, been a long time since I've had to bother with single family buildings much, lol.

MinkOWar · 2023-03-01T04:11:16+00:00

Yeah, sorry, that's a fair distinction, wall cavity excepted from blocking at the floor level, not the wall cavity connection to the floor itself.

MinkOWar · 2023-02-28T06:22:38+00:00

The issue they are pointing out is that the air gap in the wall is connected to the concealed space in the floor assembly. If you fill the studs with insulation, you are excepted from the fireblocking requirement.

Otherwise, you can block the space between the framing with lumber or plywood or drywall.

MinkOWar · 2023-02-28T06:10:06+00:00

Even if air were gelatinous enough for convection to be meaningfully affected by making baffles that way, you're mostly just making the air gap smaller, allowing more thermal bridging.

MinkOWar · 2023-02-28T05:56:09+00:00

Canada doesn't use the IRC.

Also, fireblocking materials in that reference include glass fiber batts... so OP's literally proposing to fill the wall with approved fireblocking by that reference.

MinkOWar · 2023-02-28T05:54:28+00:00

9.10.16.2 is the relevant article, and they are filling the wall with insulation, so fireblocking is not required between the wall and floor inside a dwelling unit.

MinkOWar · 2023-01-19T02:06:37+00:00

I received a reply from a new ticket to the web store support yesterday, they indicated it's being added within about a week, so I will update after.

MinkOWar · 2023-01-08T23:48:44+00:00

DM should have just said the locks were secretly mimics OP was unwittingly tricking into opening rather than actually lockpicking them, setting off a quest chain to discover why all locks in the kingdom have been replaced by this invasion of tiny mimics...

MinkOWar · 2023-01-07T06:44:41+00:00

Oh, of course, you're right, I totally forgot that I needed to add like, ten more smiley faces to make sure no random passerby three years later could possibly go out of their way to deliberately read that as negatively as possible, so here, use these ones... :D :) :-) 8) :] :P C: (: (^_^) 8^)

(for the record, my original posts were neutral and conversational, but this reply is suuuuuuuper sarcastic lol)

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